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Lowertown application
Lowertown case study

Item sets: 1995 Rudy Bruner Award cycle; Rudy Bruner Award places

Title

Lowertown

Description

1995 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence

Lowertown is an urban renewal project that transformed an underused warehouse district in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, into a vibrant, mixed-use urban village. For over 20 years, the city took a comprehensive approach to the redevelopment of the historic neighborhood, which is now home to thriving art studios, entertainment centers, local businesses, parks, and walk-to-work housing. The project was envisioned not as a short-term fix for a declining neighborhood but as a long-term approach to creating a vital, dynamic, economically viable, and desirable new urban neighborhood.

The successful redevelopment is the result of a collaboration between public agencies, private lenders, foundations, neighborhood organizations, artist communities, business associations, and other local organizations. More than 70 projects have been completed, and the gradual approach has allowed for incremental, preservation-oriented rehabilitation; retention of community self-reliance; and maximum leveraging of private investment.

Coverage

St. Paul, MN

Date

1992

Subject

mixed-use developments

historic preservation

housing rehabilitation

low-income housing

mixed-income housing

public-private sector cooperation

historic districts

central business districts

Contributor

City of St. Paul Parks Department

Contributor: en Public Agency

City of St. Paul Department of Planning & Economic Development

Contributor: en Public Agency

City of St. Paul Public Works Department

Contributor: en Public Agency

Rafferty, Rafferty, Tollefson

Contributor: en Architect

Zaidan Holdings

Contributor: en Developer

Bentz Thompson

Contributor: en Designer

Artspace Projects, Inc.

Contributor: en Community Group

Downtown Community Development Council

Contributor: en Community Group

Downtown Council of St. Paul

Contributor: en Community Group

Lowertown Redevelopment Corporation

Contributor: en Developer

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Media: 10 Park Square.tif; 01 Diagram btwn St Paul dwntwn and LT.tif; 02 Mears Park arial before.tif; 03 Mears Park Arial current.tif; 04 Mears Park with river.tif; 05 Galiter Plaza twin towers.tif; 06 Galtier Plaza glass front.tif; 07 Galiter Plaza trick or treaters.tif; 08 Galtier Plaza.tif; 09 Mears Park.tif; 10 Park Square.tif; 11 Historic warehouse across park.tif; 12 New bldgs downtown edge of LT.tif; 13 Farmers Market.tif; 14 Tilsner Building.tif; architecture.jpg; Birds eye.jpg; Building facade.jpg; Cityscape.jpg; Comercial.jpg; converted warehouses.jpg; Drawing.jpg; Floor plan.jpg; interior of union depot.jpg; lowertown by night.jpg; LT95_149 Tot Lot Plan.tif; parking.jpg; plan of redevelopment.jpg